Little snippet from Today's Molly Ivins Column

[Bandit]

by Molly Ivins.

How much fun can one administration have?
More dead Gis. Record trade deficit. Stock
market plunges. Ally in Spain goes down
in defeat. The new Spanish Prime Minister
says the occupation in Iraq is a "continuing disaster"
and he's pulling his troops out. Still no jobs.
And then the guy who was supposed to be the new
jobs czar turns out to have laid of 75 of his own
workers and then built a $3 million factory in China
to employ 165 Chinese people. Whoever has the aspirin
concession at the White House must be making a fortune.
...............
Here's the catch. Even if the globalizers are right,
and outsourcing every manufacturing job in America,
which is where we are headed, is a terrific idea,
what does it take to get the "good, high-paying jobs"
Bush claims they are creating?

In theory, the new jobs will be "brain jobs" in
biotechnology and other forms of advanced applied science,
plus the creative fields, and for that your need scientists,
entrepreneurs, creative people and intellectuals. Basically
everybody Bush doesn't like.

He's shown so much favoritism to the big corporations,
I don't see how he can claim to have even entrepreneurs.
He's constantly replaced scientists on all kinds
of government advisory boards with religious activists.
He had ignored scientific reports that indicate his various
policies either don't work or are actually harmful.

Sorry no link as I took this snippet from another board and no link was provided but it is from today's syndicated column

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[artr2]

2. Enjoy your time here

keeps spouting viewpoints like that -- bye bye

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[zanana]

10. freedom04?

I've always been very curious about something. When Republicans talk about freedom, whose freedom are they talking about? Everybody's freedom or just theirs? I hope you enjoy John Kerry's presidency. Remember all those new government agencies and those nifty new laws you guys were so enthusiastic about passing through Congress? You won't like them when a Democrat is in the White House. Tata.

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[Az]

13. This is your opportunity

to change peoples view of who you are. You can continue to escalate the hostility in which case people will reciprocate. Or you could take the chance to defuse the sitution and try to present you're case in a simple and reasonable fashion. The choice is yours.

[Jacobin]

14. Gee, can you give me some examples of what you would

consider good political commentary, like maybe um Sean InsHannity, or do tell, what to do you like to read?

[Jacobin]

3. Excuse me......are you lost?

There may be other discussion boards which you find more in line with your political views.

Just a thought. :-)

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[bagnana]

6. so is your response.

You will be gone soon, but before you leave, let it be known your administration is full of crooked liars. If they are not impeached or in jail, they will be remembered in history books as oppressive imperialists. Good bye.

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[Az]

8. May I recommend a book to you

Its called How to Win Friends and Influence People. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671723650/qid=1079559036/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-2316569-3171201

Its real cheap. Been in publication for a long time. I can tell you really want to reach out to people and communicate with them. Its just you haven't learned how to do it effectively yet. Give the book a try.

[MisterP]

4. remember Reagan,

waving Help Wanted sections of newspapers, most of which were for highly-skilled jobs--which he had violently slashed training and program funds for?

[library_max]

11. I just submitted an article about globalization and job drain.

You're right, the "brain jobs" business is just a smokescreen. Even if the Bush administration wasn't actively hostile to anybody that remotely smells of intellect, the population as a whole can't be divided into entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, and creative artists. The talent and ambition to succeed at such endeavors is rare, not common. Most people need workaday productive "job" jobs, and those are just the jobs that are being moved overseas. If even engineers are losing their jobs to foreign competitors willing to work for a small fraction of the going rate, it's pointless to talk about American workers upgrading their education and training.

But the Plaid Adder is right, the Bush administration and its inner circle don't give a damn about what's good for America or Americans. They only want to retain control. She posits that the motive is to enrich themselves and their corporate friends. I think that's true, but I want to add two other points. First, these are people who have convinced themselves that the left is evil and therefore that they are justified in taking and holding power at all costs, not just to line their own pockets, but also to keep us out. No matter what horrors they visit on this country (and they have a phenomenal inability to see beyond next week or next year anyway), their operating assumption is that what we'd have done would have been worse.

Also, they've finally sold themselves on their own idiotic ideology that government is necessarily the enemy, that "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" is necessarily an oxymoron. Well, if government is inevitably the enemy of the public good, and you find yourself running the government, what can you do except set yourself against anything that might be good for the public? The Republicans did an excellent job of selling the American voter on the dangers of giving the government to people who love government. We need to educate them on the dangers of giving the government to people who hate it.

[Mel]

17. your most beautiful & true point

We need to educate them on the dangers of giving the government to people who hate it.

To hear some of the things the republican congresscritters and US Senators say on the house floor/senate floor or in public appearances has often made me ask....Just why the hell do you even run for office? It's so obvious they hate the government you can see the venom drip from their lips. They hate democracy.

[BabsSong]

15. Freedom----blue or white collar---your job is going bye, bye

Or you have the right to work for $2 bucks an hour. And if you are retired, it takes the monetary input of a whole bunch of consumers to keep your pay coming in. And if you haven't worked yet....well, maybe we still need ditch diggers--it's kind of hard to outsource fixing the potholes in American roads. Do you believe that you are one of the Republican "chosen"---they use you to keep them in money and you are on their 'slated for extinction' list.

[Dudley_DUright]

16. I posted this yesterday in the Editorials Forum

for the thread and the link to the complete article see:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x40095